Rebble Team Addresses Concerns About Core Devices' Use of Their App Store Data

Summary

Team Rebble publishes a blog post expressing frustration with Core Devices for allegedly taking advantage of their work on the Rebble App Store. The post details how Core Devices has been using automated access to scrape app data and metadata from Rebble's platform without proper attribution or compensation. The authors acknowledge they initially characterized this as 'stealing' but later updated the post to clarify they no longer agree with that characterization, linking to a follow-up post explaining their changed perspective. The article represents a public airing of grievances between tech platforms over intellectual property and fair use issues.